Test Your Business Document Shredding Knowledge

As of 2014, how many Trivial Pursuit Games have been sold worldwide? That would make a great trivia question for the game itself, whose concept is quite simple: Correctly answer a factual trivia question and score one point.

It’s time to play a new version called Business Document Shredding Trivial Pursuit! It’s also simple: Attempt to answer each of the following facts about business document shredding. Get it right, score a point. Get it wrong, you’ve learned something valuable!

Q: What form of information has the largest majority of identity theft and fraud tied to it?

a. Digital
b. Hard copy
c. Social media
d. Word of mouth

Q: What kind of in-office paper shredder is the best for protecting your business documents?

a. Cross-cut shredder
b. Particle-cut shredder
c. Chipper shredder
d. None of the above

Q: What is the best paper shredding method? Strip-cut, pierce-and-tear, cross-cut or particle-cut.

a. Strip-cut
b. Pierce-and-tear
c. Cross-cut
d. Particle-cut

Q: How long should you keep your business documents before they are shredded?

a. Three years
b. Five years
c. Seven years
d. 10 years

Q: What acts as the final proof that your business documents have been securely and properly shredded?

a. Certificate of Compliance
b. Destruction Verification Document
c. Shredding Certificate
d. Certificate of Destruction

Q: Which is more affordable in the long run? Shredding your own documents or outsourcing your shredding?

a. Shredding your own documents
b. Outsourcing your shredding
c. Options a and b are equally affordable
d. It depends on the size of your business

Q: What shredding company in Delaware and the Tri-State area meets all of these shredding standards?

a. Paper Shredding Solutions
b. Acme Shredding Services
c. Document Destruction “R” Us
d. Wiggins Shredding